I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.

Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

Neil Gaiman

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Susanna Kaysen

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Norman Borlaug

Wisdom is a comb given to a man once he is bald.

Proverb

These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

Lucy Powell

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

J. B. Priestley

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

Omar Khayyam

I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.

Vladimir Nabokov

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Tom Stoppard

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot